This painting celebrates the beauty within everyone, even though it is seldom seen by the person them selves. Beauty within is as precious as a flower yet just as delicate. A sad story of women who are beautiful but cannot see themselves as they are. Acrylic on Canvas 20 X 34
Urban Anger
$600.00
Acrylic on canvas Mixed-media
Child Bride
$800.00
Art-piece depicts a 13 year old girl on her wedding day. Like many young people, she was taken from her African home, and brought to the new world to be sold or married off to rich men. These children came as innocent beings, whose personal identities were just forming. Her youth is captured in her radiant beauty, yet from the suffering she has undergone as an abused captive, she is filled with a maturity beyond her years. By capturing her at such a young age, she could be manipulated and sculpted into whatever image those who ruled over them wanted her to be. This leads to confusion of self vs the artificially imposed ego and the dissipation of one’s original culture. The loss of the immigrant identity started at this point in American history.
Acrylic on Canvas
Embrace Yourself
$850.00
This art piece takes us to the time of the stereotypical slave ‘mammy,’ who would give her assistance to everyone else yet deny her needs, and here her ego evolved into that of her master and whomever she served. She repressed her own feelings, and was not allowed her own identity.This set the stage for the preceding generations who gradually lost their identity of self. This piece entitled Embrace Yourself points to taking time to find your being and holding on to what is left of your ‘true’ self.Only in silence can we begin to listen and understand the ATMAN within.
Acrylic on Canvas
The Rasta-Man and His Resources -2016 27 X 36 inches
$2,700.00
With the change in racial identity the early 30s Pan-African movement, we see that there was a rise in the black man’s return to his true identity, and the acceptance of himself for who he is and not what was created for him.He rejects the false food that he has been fed over the centuries and searches for a new identity; a recreation of EGO.The piece is a colorful and corporeal rasta-man who sits and observes the few personal items that belong to him. Although the rastaman has little to call his own, he is pleased that he lives a life of peaceful simplicity, without the onus of material wealth (of the modern world) weighing down his conscious. Living as a person who’s spiritually wealthy, he has found the true happiness of his life. The Atman is reclaimed.
RASTA-MAN IN DREAM-2016 32 X 38 Inches
$3,700.00
Culture and society impose identities on us daily and over the centuries. Nevertheless, many black men moving back towards their African roots had to portray a cosmetic identity that allowed them to survive in a world ruled by money and wealth.In this piece the Rastaman is deep in contemplation, looking upon himself and his identity, both physical and spiritual, as he searches for his place in the world, as a man displaced by his captors, but also as a man who knows his abode lies back at the African Coast. He looks at the way his people were emasculated as slaves, strengthening his quest for male identity, yet by looking at his face, one can see how his features are feminized by bright colors resembling makeup. In this comparison, the rasta-man does not need to be powerful in his masculinity, but he finds his power in his willingness to dream.
RastaMan’s Warning-2017 36 X 46 Inches
$5,600.00
The Rasta-man wags his finger at “The Man”, in an attempt to warn him of the dangerous effects man’s ego can create if it is not controlled. He warns the human race of the environment they’re destroying with beliefs in coal and carbon emissions. He warns man of the violence he causes around the world because he cannot let go of his blinding pride. He warns all human beings to take their life today in gratitude, knowing that the ego can make them forget how short life can me. The Rasta-man warns us, but do we listen?
Spirit of the Lion is Alive
$3,000.00
This Art piece depicts a lion face representing the spirit within all of us which burns in us and extends back to our early ancestors. Acrylic on Canvas 28" X 42"
Ancestral African Spirit Heart and Soul
$3,700.00
Artpiece illustrates the vibrant colors of Africa and the strong spirit lion that rages in all of us passed on from our ancestors. Although oppression has tried to suppress these many marvelous heritages, the glories of our ancestors’ blood still pump within our veins, both in the form of the physical body, as well as the wide reaching spiritual body of our culture. Acrylic on Canvas 30" X 43"
African Spirit Heart
$780.00
The heart of a young man cries for the spiritual connection to his homeland. Long past memories haunt him daily and threatens his identity. His hairstyle harkens back to an African traditional Bantu Knots showing the connection he wants to have with his home land forcibly taken away from him. Acrylic on Canvas 24 X 36.
Struggling through Heritage’s Pain
$1,100.00
The Art piece demonstrates the struggle we all go through as immigrant or forced immigrants to adapt to a new world or condition. The path we take may be long and tortuous but we must take in and snuggle or dance our way through. The art illustrates this movement through waves in the air and swerving of the objects around the two men. 46" X 34.5
Transfixed Spirit at Sunset
$1,500.00
Transfixed Spirit at Sunset
Our youth are emerging confused and not sure what their values are. We have left them out in the cold by not allowing the connection to form to grandparents to ancestral home and family tree. 38” X 25”